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noun

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Recent Examples of crater
Verb
But close to daybreak, a German warplane bombed the chateau, leaving a crater in the earth and a trail of carnage. Amy Sohn, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 June 2025 At the heavily fortified Fordow Fuel Enrichment Facility, located deep beneath a mountain near Qom, satellite views reveal multiple craters along the primary access roads and directly at the entrances to tunnel complexes. Jasmine Baehr , Kyle Schmidbauer, FOXNews.com, 25 June 2025
Noun
Energy CEOs and analysts who were once optimistic about Trump now fear that falling prices, particularly in the context of uncertainty around tariffs, could crater America’s ability to compete long term. Ariel Cohen, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025 The spending and revenue figures would crater; essential services like veterans’ hospitals, air-traffic-control systems, and border-crossing stations would be completely abandoned. John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for crater
Recent Examples of Synonyms for crater
Verb
  • When stress hit, the house of cards collapsed, and failures cascaded like dominoes, wiping out billions in customer funds.
    Roomy Khan, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
  • That’s how a building managed to go without a critical earthquake retrofit for more than a century before its brick walls collapsed in 2003.
    Rong-Gong Lin II, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2025
Verb
  • That sent the stock of America’s biggest credit score company plunging Tuesday.
    Samantha Delouya, CNN Money, 8 July 2025
  • Her strapless gown also touted a plunging neckline with subtle boning, teamed with a massive feather boa for added drama.
    Charlotte Phillipp, People.com, 7 July 2025
Noun
  • Politicians and observers gathered for the ceremony held in the ancient cave of Casene near the town of Sulaymaniyah, where about 30 men and women from the militant group placed their weapons in a large cauldron that was later set on fire.
    Gul Tuysuz, CNN Money, 11 July 2025
  • Since South Korea is home to hundreds of unexplored caves and close to countries with several pseudoscorpion species, arachnologists were curious what pseudoscorpions could be lurking in these limestone cave systems and lava tubes spread across two extensive mountain ranges.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 9 July 2025
Verb
  • Staking helps protect tall or large-flowered dahlias from breakage and flopping over, especially after rain or strong wind.
    Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 July 2025
  • Some species will flop over when grown in rich soils.
    Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 3 July 2025
Verb
  • As for having children, 37.7 percent of childless respondents expressed the intention to do so—up 5.1 points—while the willingness to do so dipped slightly among those with at least one child, citing the costs and challenges of child rearing.
    Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 July 2025
  • The data from the monitors has helped district scientists find patterns about the gas: concentrations typically skyrocket at night and the higher emissions are lasting longer before dipping to levels the state says won’t cause a nuisance.
    Tammy Murga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 July 2025
Noun
  • Guest can discover the history and science of America’s natural caverns through educational and informative exhibits.
    Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 2 July 2025
  • During spring migration, recently hatched and newly mature moths move from the breeding grounds they were born in, to the distant, unfamiliar caverns.
    Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 18 June 2025
Verb
  • Renard was not the only one who failed to make the cut.
    Charlotte Harpur, New York Times, 5 July 2025
  • In the corporate world, companies that fail to keep up with advances in hardware, software or technology platforms could face a different type of crisis: being at a competitive disadvantage in a challenging and demanding marketplace.
    Edward Segal, Forbes.com, 5 July 2025
Verb
  • Partner that with another warning sign: A declining ratio of U.S. exports to imports while the U.S. deficit increases into record territory – like trade falling two months in a row, atypical since the former tends to remain steady even as the deficit increases.
    Ken Roberts, Forbes.com, 9 July 2025
  • As 2024 began, demand for electricity on the national grid started falling—not because the economy was in decline but because (as careful scrutiny of images on Google Earth revealed) so many Pakistanis were putting up solar panels.
    Bill McKibben, New Yorker, 9 July 2025

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“Crater.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crater. Accessed 15 Jul. 2025.

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